Month: June 2008

06/30/08

Federal Grants One Step Closer to Being Standardized

Effective July 1, 2008, ten federal agencies will implement a standard set of research terms and conditions for its grantees and partner organizations. The Defense Department’s Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Army Research Office, and Office of Naval Research, and the Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Institutes of Health, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, and Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service have all adopted a Federal Demonstration Partnership-proposed model implementation of OMB Circular A–110 in an effort to create greater consistency in the administration of federal research awards.

For questions, contact the NSF Policy Office at [email protected].

06/10/08

Faculty Award Recipient

We would like to recognize Linda Pickett, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Early Childhood Education, for receiving a grant for $4,280 from the Ron Matsko-Ensel Scholarship Fund of the Biosophical Institute!

Grant funds will be used for the Creating a Caring World Summer Program.  The program will promote awareness and development of peaceful practices for K-12 students, practicing teachers, and preservices teachers.  The program is scheduled to take place on the UM-Flint campus this summer for four weeks in July.  This is the first award from the Biosophical Institute to the University of Michigan. 

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Pickett!

06/3/08

NIH and AHRQ Announce Grants.gov Transition Plan

The National Institutes of Health and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality have recently announced two changes that will affect application submission.

First, the agencies will move from PureEdge to Adobe versions of the SF424 (R&R) grant application forms beginning in December 2008, provided a summer pilot proves successful. Second, they will transition from paper to electronic submission through Grants.gov using the SF424 (R&R) for the  Research Career Development (K), Individual National Research Service Awards (F), and Institutional National Research Service Awards and Other Training Grants (T, D) programs from paper to electronic submission through Grants.gov using the SF424 (R&R). Each award will transition individually, beginning with the K award on February 12, 2009. Timing of the transition of NIH’s complex, multi-project grant programs has not been set.

Source 

Direct questions about transition plans to [email protected].

06/3/08

Grant Award from HRSA to SHPS for Nursing Diversity Initiative

Congratulations to our colleagues in SHPS; the School of Health Professions and Studies  (Austin Agho, Linda Knecht, Jamila Harris, Ka’Neesha Allen and Annette Paterson) who were recently notified that their application for the UM-Flint Initiatives for Nursing Diversity (UM-FIND) has been awarded $378,275 by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)!

The purpose of the project is to increase the level of diversity and cultural competence in Flint’s nursing workforce by providing disadvantaged/minority students at the middle school, high school, associate degree and baccalaureate levels with the skills and resources to successfully compete for admission, enrollment, progression and graduation from the BSN program at UM-Flint.